Global Announcements ONLY for active courses
Global announcments are great. However, for k-12 schools, once students have move from the middle school to the high school, they should no longer receive the middle school principal’s global annoucements. We had a series of middle school global announcements that we thought would be sent to only the middle schoolers but learned that anyone at any point, who had been enrolled in a course in the middle school sub-account would receive that sub-accounts global announcment.
Basically, my request is for Canvas to add a setting to only allow global announcments for courses in ACTIVE terms for sub-accounts and not for all students enrolled in past enrolled courses. This would keep sub-account announcments seen only by those in the sub-accounts.
Perhaps there is a simple checkbox that sub-account admins can use when posting a global announcment and choose to send to all courses (past enrollments included) or to just the current active courses.
Until we have this setting changed, my elementary and middle school principals can not really use global announcments. But I know Canvas does a great job listening to us users and I hope this is something that would move Canvas forward for all users.
This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas |
For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-06-06)